Loading…
System Design Simplified
An A-Z video course on system design patterns and best practices. This course ranges from basic concepts like routing, load balancing and caching to advanced concepts like concurrency, separation of concerns, and design.
Gaurav Sen
Ex Software Engineer @ Uber, Directi
30162+ Students
Last updated on 04/2025
System Design Simplified
30162+ Students
Last updated on 04/2025
What will you learn?
Learn system design fundamentals: eventual consistency, routing, caching, etc.
Design large-scale distributed systems with microservices.
Convert requirements into high-level system designs.
Course Content
1. Basics
2 Chapters
12 Videos
12 Free Previews
How do I use this course?
1 Video
1 Free Preview
Building an Ecommerce App: 1 to 1M
11 Videos
11 Free Previews
2. Concepts
11 Chapters
64 Videos
13 Quiz
9 Resources
2 Design questions
8 Free Previews
1. Databases Deep Dive
5 Videos
2 Free Previews
2. Consistency in Distributed Systems
12 Videos
2 Quiz
1 Free Preview
3. Caches Deep Dive
5 Videos
2 Quiz
4. Networks Deep Dive
9 Videos
4 Quiz
1 Free Preview
5. Database Replication and Migration
6 Videos
6. Security in distributed systems
6 Videos
1 Quiz
1 Free Preview
7. Observability in Distributed Systems
6 Videos
1 Free Preview
8. Distributed Consensus with Paxos
5 Videos
1 Free Preview
9. Distributed Rate Limiting
2 Videos
2 Quiz
10. System Design Tradeoffs
8 Videos
1 Quiz
1 Free Preview
InterviewReady Fundamentals Test
1 Quiz
3. High Level Design
9 Chapters
46 Videos
19 Quiz
31 Resources
8 Design questions
15 Free Previews
1. Design an Emailing service like Gmail
6 Videos
5 Quiz
1 Free Preview
4. Chess Design: Building a highly scalable turn-based gaming website
5 Videos
3 Quiz
1 Free Preview
5. Hotstar: Live Video Streaming Design
4 Videos
2 Quiz
5 Free Previews
6. Google Docs: Collaborative editor design
9 Videos
1 Quiz
1 Free Preview
7. Design a Cab Aggregator App like Uber
5 Videos
1 Quiz
2 Free Previews
8. Design a Location Based Service like Google Maps
7 Videos
1 Quiz
3 Free Previews
9. WhatsApp Calling App
5 Videos
2 Quiz
1 Free Preview
10. Recommendation Engine Design
5 Videos
3 Quiz
1 Free Preview
High Level Design Exam
1 Quiz
4. Research Paper Analysis
8 Chapters
29 Videos
5 Resources
2 Free Previews
1. Scaling Memcached at Facebook
4 Videos
2. Google's Authorization Service
4 Videos
3. Timeseries Databases: Gorilla and Monarch
13 Videos
4. TAO - An in-memory graph database by Meta
3 Videos
2 Free Previews
5. Google Dremel - Interactive Analytics
1 Video
6. Apache Kafka - Feb 2025
1 Video
7. Apache Spark
1 Video
8. Milvus DB
2 Videos
Meet Your Instructor
Gaurav Sen
Ex Software Engineer @ Uber, Directi
Gaurav Sen is the founder of InterviewReady. He has expertise in distributed systems from working at Uber and Directi. He has also spoken about distributed systems at the University of Houston-Texas, IIT Gandhinagar, and BITS Hyderabad. Gaurav's YouTube channel on system design has over 500k followers.
Used By Engineers Worldwide
Helped me improve my engineering skills and think of the bigger picture. Maybe keep the pdfs of all chapters at the beginning?
Bhavya RatraSoftware Engineer at Airboxr
I like to revise the InterviewReady course every week. I maybe addicted now!
Himanshu SawarkarTechnical Lead at Infinite Computer Solutions
Overall, an informative course with interesting topics and in-depth explanation in a short amount of time.
Shalin ShahSoftware Engineer at Grab, Singapore
There is a good list of content that is easy to understand and well-explained.
Raj Kumar MauryaFull Stack Developer
The videos were really helpful to understand not just the basics but the complicated system design architectures also.
Devashish NyatiSoftware Engineer at Google
Doing this course helped me increase my knowledge related to how systems really work and make them more efficient. With this course I cracked ServiceNow!
Varun ManchandaniSoftware Engineer at ServiceNow
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the product and billing.
Who is this course for?
What is covered in this course?
What is the duration of the course?
Why System design?
Do I need to know how to code?
Start Preparing for your Dream Job today!
The most comprehensive Interview prep platform ever built